Bioethics teaching: adapting activities for remote education

Abstract

Bioethics professors from health programs at O’Higgins University, Chile, structure their courses based on local needs. A qualitative study was conducted with undergraduates, first-years in 2018, to identify the bioethics teaching needs of the local community for program reformulation. Courses taught for three consecutive years underwent changes in the first semester of 2020 due to the sanitary crisis. This article analyzes whether participation, collective production and questioning were preserved as an achievement of in-person teaching purposes. Given the context and the results obtained, program and project underwent changes when translated into the virtual modality, since student needs were known. The teaching experiences presented allow us to conclude that the bioethics teaching objectives were met despite the sanitary emergency.